To tax the larger incomes at a higher percentage than the smaller, is …

John Stuart Mill
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To tax the larger incomes at a higher percentage than the smaller, is to lay a tax on industry and economy; to impose a penalty on people for having worked harder and saved more than their neighbors. ✨ John Stuart Mill (1866). Principles of Political Economy: With Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy, p.487
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